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New Coyote banking trojan becomes first known instance of a threat actor weaponizing Windows accessibility features.
A new strain of the banking trojan known as Coyote is making headlines for exploiting a little-watched but powerful feature within the Windows operating system. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that this malware is leveraging Microsoft’s UI Automation (UIA) framework, a tool originally designed to assist users with disabilities, to covertly harvest sensitive information and user credentials.
